History VideoGame / SheepDogNWolf

* SchmuckBait: During the tutorial, Daffy Duck suggests to take a flying leap with the jump button. While standing next to a BottomlessPit.

* BagOfSpilling: You always start levels with an empty inventory. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that it's a TV game show and that it might be another of its rules. [[spoiler:Not to mention that it's all a dream anyway.]]

* TheArtifact: As noted in GravityIsAHarshMistress, if you run off a cliff, you can keep running and you won't fall if you reach stable ground in time. This feature isn't put to any practical use anywhere outside the tutorial.

* SchmuckBait: During the tutorial, Daffy Duck suggests that you can take a flying leap with the jump button. While standing next to a BottomlessPit.

** There are a number of strategies Sam attempts to use to prevent you from stealing sheep, and which are never used again once you manage to steal a sheep anyway. For instance, on level 9, Sam sets up an alarm and a trap to a patch of lettuce, so that anyone who tries to take any gets caught and Sam immediately arrives to beat them up. Patches of lettuce reappear at least once in subsequent levels, but the trap itself does not make a reappearance. The same goes for Sam's strategy from Level 6 to immediately take any sheep he sees moving away back to the flock.

** Level 14 features a reappearance of the sheep disguise. The disguise allows you to cause a sheep to follow you by bleating near them. Since this is the last level and Sam is left with just a single sheep, attempting to do the same will immediately cause him to see through your disguise and kick you right on the spot. So what can you actually use it for? Turns out, you can bleat while being close to Sam to make HIM follow you. Absolutely nothing previously established in the game suggests that this will happen.

* BlindingBangs: Sam Sheepdog has these. Doesn't stop him from seeing you steal sheep in front of him, though...

* AbsenteeActor: Despite the rest of the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes playing various roles throughout the game, WesternAnimation/BugsBunny is nowhere to be found. Ralph wears a rabbit disguise that resembles Bugs in one level, but Bugs himself is a no-show.

** The audience in the HubLevel consists entirely out of cardboard cut-outs of various ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' characters, including Witch Hazel, Rocky, She-Devil and Giovanni Jones.
** Granny, Sylvester and Tweety can be seen in a hot air balloon if Ralph flies above Sam's area in Level 3.
** While Bugs Bunny doesn't appear in the game, his face appears on a sign in Level 9 indicating that it's "Wabbit Season" and a painting of him can be seen in Level 10. Additionally, Ralph can wear a Bugs Bunny costume as a disguise in some levels.

* Bowlderise: The strange "Black Sheep Productions" logo that appears at boot-up, which shows a crudely-drawn black sheep shoot a bird from the sky; this is cut in the NTSC version, cutting to the "A Black Sheep Production" screen.

* Bowlderization: The strange "Black Sheep Productions" logo that appears at boot-up, which shows a crudely-drawn black sheep shoot a bird from the sky; this is cut in the NTSC version, cutting to the "A Black Sheep Production" screen.

* CompositeCharacter: Ralph is the main character, but he also chases the Road Runner through a desert early on like Wile E. Coyote, a completely separate but visually-identical character.

* AbsenteeActor: Despite the rest of the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes playing various roles throughout the game, WesternAnimation/BugsBunny is nowhere to be found, not counting the rabbit disguise you wear in one of the levels.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: WesternAnimation/BugsBunny is nowhere to be found, not counting the rabbit disguise you wear in one of the levels.

* BeeAfraid: In order to get the sheep in Level 10, you have to make the bees attack Sam.

* BookEnds: [[spoiler:At the end of the game, Ralph is exactly back where he started. He's not happy about it.]]

* TheCameo: Porky Pig, Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd only appear for a single level each, and only play a small part in it. [[spoiler:K-9 appears for a very brief moment during the cutscene with Marvin the Martian and does not appear later in the game. Taz makes a brief appearance in the ending credits, despite never being encountered in the game]]. Also, the audience in the HubLevel consists entirely out of cardboard cut-outs of various ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' characters.

* TheCameo: Porky Pig, Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd only appear for a single level each, and only play a small part in it. [[spoiler:K-9 appears for a very brief moment during the cutscene with Marvin the Martian and does not appear later in the game. Taz makes an brief appearance in the ending credits]]. Also, the audience in the HubLevel consists entirely out of cardboard cut-outs of various ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' characters.

* TheCameo: Porky Pig, Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd only appear for a single level each, and only play a small part in it. [[spoiler:K-9 appears for a very brief moment during the cutscene with Marvin the Martian and does not appear later in the game]]. Also, the audience in the HubLevel consists entirely out of cardboard cut-outs of various ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' characters.

* AxCrazy: Get anywhere close to Yosemite Sam and you're dead, because he's on the warpath and will kill Ralph if he gets spotted.

* DevelopersForsight: In level 13, though very difficult, it ''is'' technically possible to get past the mine field without the use of the metal detector. Since the metal detector is needed for obtaining the gold coins to lure Yosemite Sam into the jail later on in the level, there is a second metal detector in the jail.